The Tall Timber

"The Tall Timber" is one of fourteen short stories written by Leslie Charteris and included in the thirteenth Saint book Boodle (aka The Saint Intervenes) published in 1934. It had previously been published in the newspaper Empire News as "The Moustache and the Tea-Cup".

Plot
Templar impersonates a Scotland Yard inspector to bring down a small-time swindler selling a big-time scam involving tree-growing in Brazil.